ICC Champions Trophy 2017: Top 5 takeaways for ODIs from the tournament

#2 Keeping wickets for the final 10 overs

Batsmen like Ben Stokes can be extremely lethal at the death

India and England were the two best batting sides in the tournament and both got scores in excess of 300 while batting first. They, in fact, showed if you don’t lose too many wickets during the middle overs, any score is achievable in the last 10 overs.

India had players like MS Dhoni, Kedar Jadhav and Hardik Pandya who came good during the slog overs while for England, Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes did the damage at the death. The two different balls at either end don’t wear out a lot and it becomes easy to smack the ball out of the park.